Slate for Admissions Reviews and Ratings

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

As the former Director of Undergraduate Admission, I used Slate for Admissions to track our progress throughout the recruitment year to see if we would bring in enough students for the following. Slate for Admissions was so valuable in helping us to run reports on where to spend our recruitment time and energy throughout different stages of the enrollment funnel from prospect all the way to enrolled student.

Likelihood to Recommend

Slate for Admissions is a great tool to see what progress you are making during the recruitment, application review, and deposit stages. We were able to house all steps a student needed to go through to move to enrolled student on one platform. This made it easy for us to tell at a birds eye view which students were where in the pipeline. It also enabled us to get other departments onboard to use one system.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

My university uses Slate[, by Technolutions] to manage applications for prospective students.

Likelihood to Recommend

Once an applicant's file is reviewed and moved on to be accepted or rejected, there does not seem to be an easily accessible archive of the application document. It would be nice to easily dip into an archive/record of all accepted students' applications. Slate[, by Technolutions] does work well for giving multiple reviewers (an admissions committee) access to the documents.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Slate is our prospective student information system. We use it to collect and manage prospective student data, campus visits and events, applications for admission and scholarships, and communications to students and parents. We started with our undergraduate programs and have recently expanded to include our graduate programs, as well. It also helps us to track our enrollment goals in real-time with powerful query and reporting tools.

Likelihood to Recommend

I would recommend Slate, by Technolutions for any higher education institution, big or small. Though there is a higher cost associated with Slate than most other options, it's well worth the price. The level of detail that you're able to gather, maintain, and query on within your student data is far beyond anything I've experienced with other systems. These insights help you pinpoint areas for action and improvement so that you can pivot when necessary, helping you reach your enrollment goals quicker and more efficiently.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use this as our primary enrollment CRM, which manages everything from our person/contact information to advanced communication and even data management and segmentation! This is a highly advanced and recommended software tool!

Likelihood to Recommend

Essentially, if you have a body of students, especially incoming students, this tool makes everything easier. It helps with managing those students through your communication, storing their information, acting on said information, etc.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Our company recently switched to [Technolutions] Slate in the last 3 years, and it has solved so many of our admissions problems. Having access to a portal that applicants can come back to and see clearly laid out what they are missing from their application file has allowed our admissions team to have better conversion rate of leads to applicants and applicants to admitted students. It's easy to use interface really made the learning curve a lot easier to manage.

Likelihood to Recommend

Overall, [Technolutions] Slate has been an incredible CRM for our institution. It was easy to learn, and it does its job well. The ability for students to log back into a portal and see their application digitally has saved our staff a lot of time and effort. Previously, we had a web based application that didn't allow for applicants to be actively engaged in their application files and [Technolutions] Slate solved a real problem for us. It's affordable, intuitive and effective.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

It is being used by our Admissions Dept. There is some use by other offices: Pharmacy/PA, Fine Arts, Financial Aid.

It is used for virtually all admissions/recruiting processing: communications, applicant ranking, event management, outreach/marketing.

Likelihood to Recommend

I am not an end-user but use Slate as an "outsider" since I'm in IT. I use it to verify data coming to and from our SIS PeopleSoft Campus Solutions. That being said, I think it is robust and easy for most to use. It is clearly seen as the "Best in Breed" for CRM/Recruiting/Admissions systems. I am a firm believer in going with such systems. There are strength and power in numbers.

Technolutions is rather nimble and responsive with updates and addressing needs.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We needed a better CRM solution to attract new student population. We have worked with with different solutions/vendors on the past, but communication was just no effective and previous solutions were just too complicated and inefficient from administrative prospective. We needed something simple to have better impact and make processes on administration side easier and more effective. Provide staff with something that will allow them to better utilize their time.

Likelihood to Recommend

If you need a better way to communicate with students and have further impact this is great solution because it handles email communication exceptionally well.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Slate as our primary resource for assisting students in the application process for our university. We also use it for communication purposes, travel planning, monitoring communication, etc. It is primarily used by our department, but we are slowly helping other departments move towards using Slate. It addresses the issues of needing multiple software and resources to do our jobs and instead gives us a one-stop shop.

Likelihood to Recommend

Slate has changed the culture of our office and we are hoping it will eventually change the culture of our entire university. It is easy to understand, efficient, and a lifesaver! We are able to do our jobs and do them better than ever before.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Slate is being used by our university for the entire admissions process and for communication to prospective and applied/admitted students. It also being used as a contact database for organization contacts from churches to schools. It is being used for event management from overnight events to appointments and walk-ins. It is used for communication logging from sms messaging to phone conversations.

Likelihood to Recommend

Any type of admissions/university scenario is going to be where Slate is well suited. Because of its customization opportunities, we haven't found too many scenarios where it isn't appropriate. Maybe working from the app on a cell phone? i.e. making calls from a query list because of the clunky mobile format?